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October 1988

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America After Prohibition

The next debate over drug legalization: How would it work?

David Boaz, Milton Friedman, Norman Zinberg, Georgette Bennett, Ron Paul, Ethan Nadelmann, Ernest van den Haag, Charles Paul Freund and Arnold Trebach

Features

Tradespeak

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. And the trade bill is fair.

Joe Cobb

Big Brother Is No Savior

A fundamentalist exhorts other Christians not to look to Big Brother who art in Washington

Chuck Asay

Witchhunt

Insider trading is the media's favorite white-collar crime. Is it the evil side of yuppie ambition, or is it an SEC-created offense with no victims and no rules?

Michael McMenamin

Books

Life at the Margin

William Tucker

The Censor's Triumph over Art

Mariam Brillantes

Big Labor in Big Trouble

Stephen Schwartz

Book Hints

Lynn Scarlett

The Truth and Nothing but the Truth

Thomas W. Hazlett

Editorials

Margaret Thatcher

Maggie for President

Robert Poole

Antony Fisher, R.I.P.

Reason Staff

Back to Gray Flannel Suits

Virginia Postrel

By the Way…

Reason Staff

Columns

Israel: Management Without Objectives

Jack Stout

The West: Battle for the Black Hills

Peter Carrels

Life & Liberty: Black and White and Reds All Over

Richard Marin

Viewpoint: Attack of the Zombie Thrifts

Catherine England

Citings

Balance Sheet

Virginia Postrel

Where Do Deficits Come From?

Reason Staff

Congress Battles He-Man, Master of the Universe

Craig Collins

Latin Pols Cry Freedom

John Hood

Rent-A-Scam

Craig Collins

Milestones

Reason Staff

Filipino Red Tide a Washout

John Hood

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

58 YEARS OF REASON

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